Waiting
Tummult of anxiety provoked by waiting for the loved being,
subject to trivial delays (rendezvous, letters, phone calls, returns).
... Waiting is an enchantment: I have recieved orders not to move. Waiting for a telephone is thereby woven out of tiny, unavowable interdictions to infinity: I forbid myself to leave the room, to go to the toilet, even to telephone (to keep the line from being busy)...
VIA THE MARRIAGE PLOT, JEFFREY EUGENIDES
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